Democracy, Autocracy, and Expropriation of Foreign Direct Investment

By Quan Li. 2009

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Subfields: Development, Strategy and Management

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Funding Financial Inclusion: Institutional Logics and the Contextual Contingency of Funding for Microfinance Organizations (2016, background): “These conditions provide businesses with greater assurance that potentially harmful policiesmust pass through a process of checks and balances, and build investor confidence by ensuring that the“rulesof thegame” inanationareunlikelyto change capriciously (Henisz, 2000; Li, 2009).”
Democracy, foreign direct investment and natural resources (2011, background): “[29] Li, Quan, 2009, Democracy, Autocracy, and Expropriation of Foreign Direct Investment,Comparative Political Studies 42(8), 1098-1127.”
Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment: Globalized Production in the Twenty-First Century (2016, background): “Li (2009) analyzes a global sample of expropriations during 1960–1990 to show that chief-executive constraints and turnover, rather than regime type per se, explain cross-country variation in the frequency of expropriations.”
Unbundling the Relationship between Authoritarian Legislatures and Political Risk (2014, background): “…and elections have been suggested, such as the signaling of regime strength (Geddes 2006, Magaloni 2006), rents distribution (Boix and Svolik 2007, Lust-Okar 2006, Blaydes 2007), and as coercive force against potential opposition, where authoritarian rulers use strong institutions to subdue…”
The Role of Contextual Combinations in the Globalization of Chinese Firms (2014, unknown): “Indeed, comparative evidence suggests that stable autocratic regimes pose no more threat in terms of expropriating foreign investment in their countries than do democracies that are relatively unstable (Li, 2009).”
State-owned MNCs and host country expropriation risk: The role of home state soft power and economic gunboat diplomacy (2014, background): “Although outright expropriation has become rare in recent decades (Li, 2009), there is a wide range of government policies that can reduce the profitability of foreign investment.”